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https://www.rei.com/blog/wp-content/uploads/sites/4/2025/01/Wudan-Yan-Headshot.jpeg7501123Wudan Yan is an award-winning narrative journalist, fact-checker, and entrepreneur based in Seattle, Washington. Her writing has appeared in The Atlantic, California Sunday Magazine, High Country News, MIT Technology Review, The New York Times, Popular Mechanics and beyond. She is a multi-grantee of the Pulitzer Center for Crisis Reporting and has also received grants from […]